nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230913-220930-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230913s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230913-220930-0 doi eng 342 23 Weill, Rivka Author aut Game of Chicken - Israel's Litigation Over Striking Down the Reasonableness Doctrine Weill, Rivka Verfassungsblog 2023-09-13 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Yesterday, on September 12th, the Israeli Supreme Court, sitting en banc, heard eight petitions challenging a hotly contested constitutional amendment. The Court has rarely sat en banc in the past, and this is the first time that it sits in a composition of fifteen justices, attesting to the importance that the Court attributes to this decision. The amendment modifies Basic Law: the Judiciary, which protects judicial independence, lays out the process of judicial selection for all the state courts and grants the Supreme Court the authority to supervise state action when the Court convenes in its capacity as a High Court of Justice. In this blog, I will explain each side’s arguments and the strategic considerations behind the Attorney General’s unprecedented move to push the Court to explicitly invalidate a constitutional amendment. I will show how both sides ultimately found themselves dragged into a game of chicken from which they could not back down. CC BY-SA 4.0 Democratic Backsliding Israel Israeli Supreme Court Reasonableness Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/game-of-chicken/ raw object